Someone Shot the Hip Young Conductor by Matthew Sunrich

Someone Shot the Hip, Young Conductor, Matthew Stephen Sunrich’s debut collection, is an ode to existential irreverence, absurdity, and surreal, Kafka-esque scenarios: universes collide; skeletons play jazz with gorillas; one-armed gravediggers; extremely courteous vampires; trains that wake the dead.

And, of course, Picasso’s painting of Frankenstein’s monster.

19 stories that range from the bizarre to the extremely bizarre, brimming with dark humor and grotesque originality and just a dash of melancholy.